Jupiter/Saturn in Aquarius Western failure, Chinese triumph

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After reading the article below, I was reminded that the last conjunction of Jupiter/Saturn in Aquarius (the socio-economic development for the next 20 years) happened in the 1st House of China.

Western failure, Chinese triumph
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The pandemic is reshuffling the cards of the world order. The West, which since the fall of the Soviet Union was the queen of hearts of the emerging world, has instead played the role of the selfish two of spades since the onset of COVID-19. Will the loss of influence of liberal democracies, like the United States and Canada, to the benefit of China in particular, be one of the worst collateral damage of the health crisis?

Africa and the selfishness of the West

On November 24, scientists in South Africa sounded an alarm bell that no one wanted to hear. Through sequencing, they detected the Omicron variant, which is more contagious than its predecessors. They warned the planet. The boomerang quickly came to their faces.

In the days that followed, the United States, Canada and countries in the European Union implemented travel bans directly affecting South Africa. In the case of Canada, these bans hit 10 African countries, despite the fact that the Omicron variant has been detected in nearly 50 countries.

“Our scientific community was very shocked and outraged by this response which is, according to all we know, ineffective. Politically, there have been very strong reactions, and with good reason, ???said Bruce Mellado, epidemiological modeling expert in South Africa, reached by videoconference. The researcher, whose work is supported in part by the International Development Research Center of Canada, is an advisor to the premier of Gauteng, the province where the major cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria are located. His functions do not allow him to express great outbursts of anger, but we can feel the disappointment in each of his words.

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What was China doing as the West closed its borders to many African countries? Chinese President Xi Jinping took advantage of the triennial China-Africa summit to promise 1 billion doses of vaccines, or 600 million doses in donations and 400 million to be produced in African infrastructure.

China, which has had very strict entry rules since the start of the pandemic, has not issued new guidelines for African countries where the Omicron variant has been detected. The whole thing did not go unnoticed.

And this is not the first time that the Middle Empire has scored points in Africa for its more generous handling of the pandemic.

China and Russia were the first countries to send vaccines to the emerging world, while the West kept its doses of Pfizer and Moderna to themselves.

China has also deployed 1,500 healthcare workers to the mainland.

Africa will remember Western selfishness for a long time, believes Joanne Liu, former international president of Médecins sans frontières and pediatric emergency physician at Sainte-Justine hospital.

With COVID-19, the West has lost the game of influence in Africa! Even if we are sending vaccines now, China has been there from the start and it has been positioning itself for a long time. The West has just lost the battle for influence and solidarity.

“And our global management of the pandemic is going to cost us dearly. We will realize this in five years when we are going to try to have contracts or important seats in large international organizations ???, laments the figurehead of humanitarian action. With 54 votes in the United Nations General Assembly, Africa weighs heavily in the balance.

In this regard, one cannot help but think of Canada, which broke its teeth last year when it tried to secure a seat on the United Nations Security Council. To save the day before the vote, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, François-Philippe Champagne, attempted a last-minute mission in Africa. Too little, too late.

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Joanne Liu sees coming the long-announced sinking of Canadian and Western influence in Africa. When she was on a mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the war in the early 2000s, she already saw China making its mark there. “The Africans used to say to me: 'Yes, it's true, the Chinese come for our natural resources, but they build roads, schools, and they don't enslave us. It's better than what we've been through before ???, recalls the pediatrician. Since then, China has injected hundreds of billions into African infrastructure.

Joanne Liu's prediction about getting the contracts is already coming true. According to a report by the firm McKinsey, China already won half of Africa's engineering, construction and procurement contracts in 2017, even when the projects are financed by the World Bank, headquartered in Washington. .

Africa where one in four humans will live by 2050!
Blessings!